BritBop 2024
Birds of Prey Convention is heading to the United Kingdom, at BritBoP 2024! Located in Aldershot, Hampshire (near London), running from Friday June 7 to Sunday June 9. This year's event will feature an exciting set of scenarios cherry-picked from the U.S. conventions, including the forthcoming 2024 event. This content includes British aircraft from the entire span of the jet age!
More importantly, the convention will be full of a great bunch of fellow air gamers, excited to compete, teach and learn.
In the two days before the event, some attendees will be making trips to two noteworthy aviation museums: the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton.
If you are new to Birds of Prey, this is the perfect place to learn how to play. If you have played before, you can hone your skills and advance your tactics. And it is your chance to hang out with the people that create and support the game!
Please let the organizers know if you will attend by emailing:
drewshotsfan@hotmail.co.uk
(No need to respond if you will not attend.)
Convention 2024
Birds of Prey Convention 2024 is coming to Omaha, Nebraska, USA, running from Thursday August 22 to Sunday August 25.
This year's event will feature new aircraft and missiles in a challenging set of scenarios. Much of this will be preview content from the forthcoming folios Dawn of the Jet Age (World War II), Rolling Thunder (early Vietnam War), and Ghosts of Kiyev (Russian invasion of Ukraine.) More importantly, the convention will be full of a great bunch of fellow air gamers, excited to compete, teach and learn.
The Omaha area hosts the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum and we will attend as a group as part of the event. Here you can see an array of strategic bombers, from B-17 to B-58, including the massive B-36, a rare RB-45, and a British Vulcan. There are also an array of fighters, including the unique XF-85 Goblin.
If you are new to Birds of Prey, this is the perfect place to learn how to play. If you have played before, you can hone your skills and advance your tactics. And it is your chance to hang out with the people that create and support the game!
Please let us know if you will attend at:
http://tinyurl.com/BoPCon-2024
(No need to respond if you will not attend.)
Airbattle RAG 6
Airbattle RAG 6 is now available for purchase. This folio expands your world of jet dogfighting with new aircraft missiles, and scenarios, featuring the new content released at two recent Birds of Prey Conventions.
“Strike from the Sea” was the theme of the 2021 Birds of Prey Convention and featured fights where at least one side launched from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Scenarios range from the icy waters of the Baltic, to the ever-tense Taiwan Straight; between the the two warring Koreas, and over the sweltering sands of Egypt.
“The Aircraft We’ve Longed to Fly” of the 2022 Convention featured aircraft that the designers and previous convention attendees selected as those they most wanted to see that had not yet been featured in a product. This adds some very exciting new aircraft, including uncovered gems from the early cold war though ultramodern aircraft that have barely entered service!
All this, plus several aircraft and missiles not featured at the conventions, make Airbattle RAG 6 a substantial addition to your air combat collection!
Good luck and good hunting!
Birds of Prey Links
The Airbattle Games team has maintains several points of contact on different sites around the web:
Get your questions answered, keep up with Birds of Prey news and even find a new game on the mailing list at: https://groups.io/g/airbattle
Get pre-release content at: https://www.patreon.com/BirdsofPrey730
Find video tutorials at: https://www.youtube.com/@airbattlegames9422
Live chat at: http://discord.gg/M7VzavJWu3
Play-test BoP 2.0 at: https://groups.io/g/airbattle/files/BoP%20Playtest
The Patreon site is very permissive. For whatever you choose to give (above a very low minimum), you get access to all the content produced for our Patreon page back to the first release from 2015.
We use the moneys from Patreon to offset several expenses of producing and promoting Birds of Prey. This includes paying for some of the tool licenses, as well as for subsidizing the game room at our annual convention.
